International Relations
Code
LL136
Department
Área de Ensino
Credits
4
Teacher in charge
Armando Marques Guedes
Weekly hours
3
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
Give future jurists a general idea of how to analyse and understand international relations; render them capable of understanding the characteristics of the current international system, in the light of contemporary international relations theories: namely, post-bipolar ethnic, nationalist and religious conflicts.
Subject matter
The emergence of International relations as an academic dsicipline. States and sovereignty.From the international system of States to international society. Realism, liberalism and struturalism face to face with the end of the bipolar world. The program of the discipline is devoted to the detailed study of a series of themes: nacionalism, ethnicity and identity. The three main paradigms: primordialis, instrumentalism and constructivism. The State and ethno-religious conflicts. The extant models for conflict regulation, their reach and limits, International Law and conflict mediation, collective security and international organizations. Peace keeping, peace enforcement and nation building: the specificity of contemporary scenarios. The international order afte September 11. Kosovo Georgia and al-Qaeda. Identity in the modern world and the new emergent forms of political community.
Bibliography
Armando Marques Guedes (2005), Estudos sobre Relações Internacionais, Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros [some of the articles here are in English].
Armando Marques Guedes (2007), Ligações Perigosas. Conectividade, coordenação e aprendizagem em redes terroristas, Almedina, Coimbra.
Armando Marques Guedes (2008), Raising Diplomats. Political, genealogical and administrative constraints oin training for diplomacy, Wien Diplomatische Akademie, Wien, Austria.
Armando Marques Guedes (2009), A 'Guerra dos Cinco Dias'. A invasão da Geórgia pela Federação Russa. Instituto de Estudos Superiores Militares e Prefácio, Lisboa [there is an available English version of this].
Sergey Markedonov (2010), Radical Islam in the Northern Caucasus. Evolving Threats, Challenges, and Prospects, CSIS, Washington.
Nuno Lemos Pires (2011), Cartas de Cabul. O Afeganistão visto por um soldado português, text by Nuno Lemos Pires and annotations and postfacium by Armando Marques Guedes, Tribuna da História, Lisboa.
Radu Dudau and Armando Marques Guedes (2011), “European Energy Security: The Geopolitics of Natural Gas Projects”, Ashgate, London.
Some 100 further titles (both articles and books) will be reccomended, session by session, in the Bibliography made available to students.
Cerca de 100 outros títulos são recomendados, aula por aula, na bibliografia entegue aos alunos e disponibilizada na net.
Teaching method
Lectures will be participative, after a first ex catedra section. Following presentations of the themes, a discussion on them will characteristically follow.